Football Hawk
| Football Hawk | |
| File:Football Hawk volume 1.png First tankōbon volume cover | |
| フットボール鷹 (Futtobōru Taka) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Sports[1] |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Noboru Kawasaki |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Magazine |
| Original run | January 9, 1977 – April 1, 1979 |
| Volumes | 10 |
Football Hawk (Japanese: フットボール鷹, Hepburn: Futtobōru Taka) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Noboru Kawasaki. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from January 1977 to April 1979 and published in ten volumes.
Media
[edit | edit source]Manga
[edit | edit source]Written and illustrated by Noboru Kawasaki, the series began serialization in serialization in Kodansha's manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine on January 9, 1977.[2] It completed its serialization on April 1, 1979.[3] Its individual chapters were collected into ten tankōbon volumes.[4]
Volumes
[edit | edit source]| No. | Japanese release date | Japanese ISBN |
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| 1 | July 26, 1978[5] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| 2 | July 26, 1978[6] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| 3 | August 18, 1978[7] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| 4 | September 21, 1978[8] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| 5 | October 20, 1978[9] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| 6 | December 19, 1978[10] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| 7 | January 23, 1979[11] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| 8 | February 22, 1979[12] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| 9 | March 23, 1979[13] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
| 10 | April 20, 1979[4] | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
Audio drama
[edit | edit source]An audio drama adaptation, with scripts written by Mamoru Sasaki and starring Kinya Aikawa, was released by NHK FM Broadcast. It ran for six episodes from August 14–19, 1977.[14]
Reception
[edit | edit source]In 1978, the series won the 2nd Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen manga category.[15]
Mike Toole of Anime News Network felt that the story was not as melodramatic as Ikki Kajiwara's Ashita e Free Kick, but that it was well researched and had good artwork. He concluded that "Football Hawk would be the most successful stab at [American football]'s depiction in manga for quite some time".[1]
References
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